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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAeNUs BENI-is, or NEW vonk, N. Y.

BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,661, dated August2'?, 1889.

Serial No. 316,381. (No model.)

To all 'LU/"wm, t may concern:

Be it known that I, IWIAGNUS BENAS, of New York city, New York, haveinvented an Improved Ilox, of which the Jfollowing isa specification.

This invention relates to a box in which a drawer is pivoted between thetwo leaves ot a cover, the whole presenting when closed substantiallythe appearance of a book.

The invention consists more particularly in so constructing the box thatthe pivot on which the drawer turns is entirely concealed, thuspreventing the cover from being injured by its action.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a face view of my improvedbOX, showing it closed and the cover partly broken away. Fig. 2 is aface view of the box, showing it partly open. Fig. is an end View of thebox when closed; Fig. 4, asimilar View when open, and Fig. 5, across-section on line xx, Fig. l.

The letter a represents a drawer open at the top and closed at its sidesand bottom. This drawer turns upon a pivot inpassing through one cornerof the drawer and through one corner of a pair of top and bottom platesc of the same size as drawer a. The ends of pivot b should be upset, andmay be provided with washers, so as to hold the parts a c well together.

d d are the leaves of the cover, united bya curved back d', the wholebeing U-shapedin cross-section. After the drawer a has been united tothe plates c by the pivot h it is, together with such plates, placedwithin the U- shaped cover, and the plates c are glued to the innerfaces of the leaves d. Thus the plates and drawer are secured to thecover in such a manner that the pivot will not in anywise protrude.

The box is opened by swinging' the drawer a upon its pivot out of thecover d, as shown in Fig. 2.

Into the back d of cover d, I glue a semicircular stiiening-strip f, ofwood or similar material, having a straight front edge. Against thisstrip the drawer a abuts when closed, and thus the drawer is preventedfrom swinging too far inward.

What I claim is 1. The combination ot a U-shaped cover with a pair otplates e, secured to its inner plates, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a U-shaped cover with a strip f, secured to itsback, and with a pair. of plates c, secured to the inner faces of thecover, and with a drawer a, pivoted to said plates, substantially asspecified.

MAGNUS BENAS.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, A. JoNGHMANs.

faces, and with a drawer a, pivoted to said

